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president sits down with cnn answering questions about washington and congress and a controversial nsa spying program. that's just ahead. i'm suzanne malveaux. as a small oklahoma town comes to grips with this senseless tragedy, one man is offering a possibly motive. it's hard to believe. this is in the shooting death of the australian baseball player. he was gunned down as he was jogging in the town of duncan. three teens have been charged. one suspect said they were bored. now an oklahoma man says that the killing was part of a gang initiatuation. he said his on son was on the list of targets. what is he saying? >> that man is james johnson. he told fairfax media he didn't think christopher lane's killing was random. he believe it was part of a gang initiatuation. it was johnson's call to police that ended with the arrest of 15-year-old james edward johnson and michael jones. johnson said the three teens threatened his on son because he refused to join a gang. police have not confirmed that the killing was gang related and cnn has tried to reach johnson repeatedly without success. we
president sits down with cnn answering questions about washington and congress and a controversial nsa spying program. that's just ahead. i'm suzanne malveaux. as a small oklahoma town comes to grips with this senseless tragedy, one man is offering a possibly motive. it's hard to believe. this is in the shooting death of the australian baseball player. he was gunned down as he was jogging in the town of duncan. three teens have been charged. one suspect said they were bored. now an oklahoma man...
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. >> reporter: the president met with lawmakers from both parties to talk about the nsa's batta mibatta -- data mining. one house member said there will be legislation aimed at building confidence in the programs. >> thank you. >>> more subpoenas coming from house republicans to the state department over benghazi. oversight committee chairman issa is demanding documents relating to the review of what happened when four americans were killed. issa says the state department has ignored requests for months. virginia republican congressman says tomorrow he will resubmit all of the questions he has over the past three weeks regarding benghazi so they will be in the congressional record. today he asked who in the white house knew what was going on in the cia annex and is calling for a select committee to investigate. >>> texas republican says he will try to force a vote on that very proposal. >>> confusion tonight on u.s. policy on drones. secretary of state told pakistani tv president obama has a timeline to end the use of the drones to kill terrorists. officials in yemen say three alleged a
. >> reporter: the president met with lawmakers from both parties to talk about the nsa's batta mibatta -- data mining. one house member said there will be legislation aimed at building confidence in the programs. >> thank you. >>> more subpoenas coming from house republicans to the state department over benghazi. oversight committee chairman issa is demanding documents relating to the review of what happened when four americans were killed. issa says the state department...
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how is the nsa defending this? >> they say none of this was intentional. that is always the defense that they have. they say the volume of data that they are collecting, millions and millions of e-mails and internet traffic that goes through these fiber optic wires that they are monitoring. and they say when you are collecting this volume of data looking for so to speak the needles in the hay stack that there will be mistakes made. that is what their defense is. we screwed up but we didn't intend to. and this is what this judge was so upset about. he said essentially in october 2011 he came down very hard on them and said you have been misrepresenting what you said you were going to be doing. >> and before you go "wall street journal" today says the nsa can reach about 75% of domestic internet traffic. forget whether they should be doing it, shouldn't they be able to watch 100%? >> that does raise the question. this is basically because of the relationships that they built with these companies. so these radcompanies agrees to help the nsa. >> covering this
how is the nsa defending this? >> they say none of this was intentional. that is always the defense that they have. they say the volume of data that they are collecting, millions and millions of e-mails and internet traffic that goes through these fiber optic wires that they are monitoring. and they say when you are collecting this volume of data looking for so to speak the needles in the hay stack that there will be mistakes made. that is what their defense is. we screwed up but we...
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the nsa is policing itself. it has no oversight and it answers to no one but it should answer, heather, to the american people. wasn't it president obama who said that his administration would be about transparency? heather: he absolutely did and, you know, we now have the senate judiciary chairman himself, patrick leahy, he is promising a hearing. we have senator bob corker demanding nsa director, keith alexander brief the entire senate. this as a possible solution. you just touched on it and i want to talk about what you think can be done to provide that oversight. calls for an independent special advocate to oversee the nsa. would that fix things? >> well, the bottom line is this. we already have things in place, heather. we have the constitution. and we have congress. and again, the government is supposed to protect the consumer. so we're going down a slippery slope here. we should not have an independent advocate. people should be brought to justice if they broke the law. i'm for achieving, the war on terro
the nsa is policing itself. it has no oversight and it answers to no one but it should answer, heather, to the american people. wasn't it president obama who said that his administration would be about transparency? heather: he absolutely did and, you know, we now have the senate judiciary chairman himself, patrick leahy, he is promising a hearing. we have senator bob corker demanding nsa director, keith alexander brief the entire senate. this as a possible solution. you just touched on it and...
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nsa, 69%. department of justice and james rosen, 59%. irs, same number at 59%, serious versus phony. how does he handle this now, chris? >> well, it's going to be interesting, because he's definitely going to be asked about it. right after the terror alerts and the decision not to meet with putin that i would ask him, and it's going to be hard because one of the things you'd say is, mr. president, let me give you three scandals here, the irs, the targeting of conservatives, benghazi, the killing of four americans including the first u.s. ambassador in 30-plus years, the targeting of a reporter, the sweeping up of information about all of americans. i did four. which one of those, sir, is phony and why? i'd be interested to hear his answer. i hope somebody asks the question. bill: there's another item in our fox news polling too. the question is this, with regard to benghazi and the obama administration, trying to cover it up versus being open and transparent. that number's creeping up to 62% now. that's about 2 to 1. versus what the admi
nsa, 69%. department of justice and james rosen, 59%. irs, same number at 59%, serious versus phony. how does he handle this now, chris? >> well, it's going to be interesting, because he's definitely going to be asked about it. right after the terror alerts and the decision not to meet with putin that i would ask him, and it's going to be hard because one of the things you'd say is, mr. president, let me give you three scandals here, the irs, the targeting of conservatives, benghazi, the...
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what is funny, the nsa director gave a speech that as cyber security conference this week. he ended it by sayin if you guys -- you should make up your mind and get all the facts yourself. which would be great if they would give us the facts, but what uc was moves like this to order to increase their own lack of tnsparency, their own internal protectns to make sure that there permission cannot give up, what you see is they're making moves to ensure you connecticut informaon. neil: i called that. a very astute observation. you are not telling us the facts. it is ver hard. forget it. thank you very muc meanwhile, no surprise, the president would be doing a little behind the scenes palin. privately with big technology executives. we are told it will put their minds at ease. no one is talking about what is happening at this meeting of what is said, not exactly putting my next guests mind that these. always good to have you. what are we to make of this? when authorities tried to tell me come down, look at the facts, that the present the facts, they keep telling me to calm down an
what is funny, the nsa director gave a speech that as cyber security conference this week. he ended it by sayin if you guys -- you should make up your mind and get all the facts yourself. which would be great if they would give us the facts, but what uc was moves like this to order to increase their own lack of tnsparency, their own internal protectns to make sure that there permission cannot give up, what you see is they're making moves to ensure you connecticut informaon. neil: i called that....
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>> i thought president obama was incredibly reasonable last night when discussing the nsa and i think if you replaced him with george bush, nobody would be complaining. george bush would have said the same. >> not on jay leno. >> you act like a hypocrite, you condemn him because it came out of his mouth. having said that, there's an overwhelming amount of chaos inside and outside this country. president obama takes on the role of a calm pilot, weaving the plane through the storm. the problem is his policies. you can argue about being on jay leno. that's not the problem, the problem is he should be doing something about bigger issues like joblessness, which is a fact that he is not at all engaged in the fracking issue which would do a lot to reduce strife in the middle east, lower the four buck, five gallon buck of gas. not ragging on him for playing basketball. what a bunch of baby games. >> i push back a little, too. i don't have a problem with him playing golf on free time, but when you close 22 embassies, pull that many american diplomats off line. >> he hasn't come out in an offic
>> i thought president obama was incredibly reasonable last night when discussing the nsa and i think if you replaced him with george bush, nobody would be complaining. george bush would have said the same. >> not on jay leno. >> you act like a hypocrite, you condemn him because it came out of his mouth. having said that, there's an overwhelming amount of chaos inside and outside this country. president obama takes on the role of a calm pilot, weaving the plane through the...
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these nsa programs are extremely unpopular in europe, too. it's caused tension between some of the united states' closest allies. it goes beyond russia. obviously, this is the near-term issue we expect to hear the president sort of justify his reasoning of not doing this -- of deciding to skip this summit. it is fascinating now. he's announcing a whole bunch of reforms based on documents that were released by edward snowden. they're announcing all of these new reforms. okay. now we've canceled a summit. at some point over russia's refusal to turn edward snowden over, but it's clear they're also sort of sheepish in deciding they do need a new policy. so was it really -- then should they be cancelling summits over this issue? i think that's going to be another question the president is going to have to deal with. >> have you heard anything about the lower-level meetings taking place between secretary kerry and hagel and their russian counterparts today and if that's helping to mend any of the fi fissures? >> well, they are supposedly -- and the
these nsa programs are extremely unpopular in europe, too. it's caused tension between some of the united states' closest allies. it goes beyond russia. obviously, this is the near-term issue we expect to hear the president sort of justify his reasoning of not doing this -- of deciding to skip this summit. it is fascinating now. he's announcing a whole bunch of reforms based on documents that were released by edward snowden. they're announcing all of these new reforms. okay. now we've canceled...
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i expect he will get a couple questions on nsa. for example he told jay leno earlier this week that the u.s. does not have a domestic spying program yet "the new york times" report this is week the fact of extent on spying of american citizens is much more extensive than anybody thought. that the nsa is looking at content of your emails, texts and phone calls. i expect him to get a couple questions about that and also about al qaeda and this terror threat. kelly: the caveat with that eavesdropping now on our data and our emails that it is related to someone who might be involved in terrorism or overseas. let's get to edward snowden though, the guy actually responsible for a lost leaks at the nsa. let's hear what jay carney, the white house press secretary said during the white house briefing about that and the fact that vladmir putin has now given snowden temporary asylum. the president of course stating that he will not meet with putin during the g20 summit in sent. let's hear what jay carney said. >> he is not a dissident. he is
i expect he will get a couple questions on nsa. for example he told jay leno earlier this week that the u.s. does not have a domestic spying program yet "the new york times" report this is week the fact of extent on spying of american citizens is much more extensive than anybody thought. that the nsa is looking at content of your emails, texts and phone calls. i expect him to get a couple questions about that and also about al qaeda and this terror threat. kelly: the caveat with that...
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bill: it may go to the whole nsa affair, who is watching what, what information they're taking from you now and what could be taken in the future. also the irs is dealing with this federal elections commission deal. >> it is also -- bill: let me quote darrell issa here. on the screen for our viewers. documents recently produced to the committee demonstrate the fec personnel communicated with irs personnel about tax-exempt groups engaged in political activities. raised the prospect of inappropriate coordination between the irs and the fec about tax-exempt entities. inappropriate coordination, byron. >> i think issa may have been being nice using word inappropriate t could be illegal. it could be illegal for the irs to share information about groups that had applied for tax-exempt status and were not granted it. and then share that information with the fec. you know the irs has a lot of confidentiality requirements that bind it. and if it is sharing information about either individual taxpayers or about tax-exempt organization it is can't share them with other parts of the government exce
bill: it may go to the whole nsa affair, who is watching what, what information they're taking from you now and what could be taken in the future. also the irs is dealing with this federal elections commission deal. >> it is also -- bill: let me quote darrell issa here. on the screen for our viewers. documents recently produced to the committee demonstrate the fec personnel communicated with irs personnel about tax-exempt groups engaged in political activities. raised the prospect of...
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. >> president obama answering questions on a wide range of topics, on the nsa surveillance. >> america is not interested in spying on ordinary people. >> and some changes ahead. >> i will work with congress to pursue appropriate reforms. >> on our relationship with russia. >> i don't have a bad personal relationship with putin. >> on ed snowden himself. >> i don't think mr. snowden was a patriot. >> and on obama care. >> the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. >> tonight, q&a at the white house. and we'll get to that. but first from fox this friday night, a teenage girl at the center of a kidnap case is alive and in good health. that's the word from somebody who reported seeing her with the suspected kidnapper. investigators have also now found his suspect's car. and they say there is no evidence that the suspect is holding her against her will. the girl's name is hannah anderson. she's 16. investigators say 40-year-old james dimaggio kidnapped her after a fire at his house east of san diego over the
. >> president obama answering questions on a wide range of topics, on the nsa surveillance. >> america is not interested in spying on ordinary people. >> and some changes ahead. >> i will work with congress to pursue appropriate reforms. >> on our relationship with russia. >> i don't have a bad personal relationship with putin. >> on ed snowden himself. >> i don't think mr. snowden was a patriot. >> and on obama care. >> the one...
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i want to go back to the nsa program. you said something important, which is you could vouch for the program that was underway when you were in office. but obviously not being read into the into the program now, it is a different situation. i think everybody in this room would agree barack obama is no dick cheney.[applause] when you have a president who has shown himself to have such a complete disreguard for the rule of law, who has shown himself willing to use the irs to go after political enemies, who has shown himself willing to completely disregard the constitution, to decide i am not going to implement the employer mandate because it is inconvenient for me even though it is the law, who has shown himself frankly completely irresponsible when it comes to protecting americans' privacy, you have a lot of americans out there now, and in light of a lot of news stories we are seeing, that say the nsa made a mistake and they listened to phone calls from washington, d.c., because it has a 202 area code which is similar to t
i want to go back to the nsa program. you said something important, which is you could vouch for the program that was underway when you were in office. but obviously not being read into the into the program now, it is a different situation. i think everybody in this room would agree barack obama is no dick cheney.[applause] when you have a president who has shown himself to have such a complete disreguard for the rule of law, who has shown himself willing to use the irs to go after political...
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a new report says the nsa cracked videoconferencing system at u.n. and apparently that is not all. >>> plus jody arias is back before a judge. today we could learn when the retrial of the convicted killer's penalty phase will begin. >>> and there is talk about making an entrance? bandits storm a pawn shop. why what they got away with has police very worried. it is all happing right now. jon: good morning to you, with us today, is arthel neville. in for jenna lee. arthel: we'll start with this, jon. a-team of u.n. inspectors coming under sniper fire in damascus. a spokesman saying it happened while they were on their way to inspect the site where hundreds of people were killed in a reported chemical attack last week. for days syria wouldn't let the team go near the site. the government finally agreeing to allow the inspectors to visit that starting today but a senior u.s. official dismissed the offer as too late to be credible saying crucial evidence could have already been destroyed. leland vittert is live in jerusalem with more. leland? >> reporter:
a new report says the nsa cracked videoconferencing system at u.n. and apparently that is not all. >>> plus jody arias is back before a judge. today we could learn when the retrial of the convicted killer's penalty phase will begin. >>> and there is talk about making an entrance? bandits storm a pawn shop. why what they got away with has police very worried. it is all happing right now. jon: good morning to you, with us today, is arthel neville. in for jenna lee. arthel: we'll...
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in a statement to fox news a nsa spokesperson says quote, nsa signals intelligence mission is centered on defeating foreign adversaries who are aiming to harm the country. we defend against threats and working to protect privacy rights of u.s. persons. it is not either/or. it is both. the use of the devices that allow the agency to pull data in real time as it passes through web networks. the in. sa's definition of collection relies on an intelligence directive which defines collection as analyzing retrieving information, not actually storing it, heather. heather: catherine, where does it leave the administration? >> reporter: in his most recent comments on the ns aft controversy president obama said more americans learn about the nsa programs and safeguards built into the programs he believes the more comfortable he will be with the level of surveillance. >> i'm comfortable that the program currently is not being abused. i'm comfortable if the american people examined, exactly what was taking place, how it was being used, what the safeguards were, that they would say, you know what? t
in a statement to fox news a nsa spokesperson says quote, nsa signals intelligence mission is centered on defeating foreign adversaries who are aiming to harm the country. we defend against threats and working to protect privacy rights of u.s. persons. it is not either/or. it is both. the use of the devices that allow the agency to pull data in real time as it passes through web networks. the in. sa's definition of collection relies on an intelligence directive which defines collection as...
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the nsa issuing this response, quote, when nsa makes a mistake and carrying out its foreign intelligence mission, the agency reports the issue internally and to federal overseers and aggressively gets to the bottom of it. congressman goudi joins us. thank you for being here on a friday evening. let me ask you. when you first heard of this news last night, were you surprised or in line with what you thought was probably happening? >> well, dana, i would like to tell you i'm still surprised when government disappoints and when there's evidence we can't trust people in positions of power but i'm beyond that point. i was surprised at the pervas e pervasiveness of it. thousands of incidents. here's what does surprise me. i know having three branches of government is tedious sometimes. i know that that is disappointing to the executive branch. but i wonder how many of my colleagues in congress were briefed that there were thousands of errors made with respect to this program because i have a sneaking suspicion the number is zero. that's how many of my colleagues were told ahead of time before
the nsa issuing this response, quote, when nsa makes a mistake and carrying out its foreign intelligence mission, the agency reports the issue internally and to federal overseers and aggressively gets to the bottom of it. congressman goudi joins us. thank you for being here on a friday evening. let me ask you. when you first heard of this news last night, were you surprised or in line with what you thought was probably happening? >> well, dana, i would like to tell you i'm still surprised...
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nsa official says: nsa signals intelligence activities? are designed to acquire, produce, and disseminate foreign intelligence information net capables and intentions or activities of foreign powers and their agents, foreign organizations, foreign persons, blah blah blah. and any immix indication that nsa's collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is dead wrong. >> how chose to white house justify this. >> the president's spy agencies are not just interested in communication to and from a terror target. they're interested in information about the target. so when that comes up in an e-mail send from an american to someone overseas it's fair game to symptom but it has to cross the border. it can't be an e-mail to someone else inside the country. "the new york times" says that nsa computers search nearly all cross-border text data for dewords and save e-mail or instant mess imagines so analysts can examine them. jay carny says anything not related to an investigation is deleted. >> the purpose of the program is to investigate and potentially
nsa official says: nsa signals intelligence activities? are designed to acquire, produce, and disseminate foreign intelligence information net capables and intentions or activities of foreign powers and their agents, foreign organizations, foreign persons, blah blah blah. and any immix indication that nsa's collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is dead wrong. >> how chose to white house justify this. >> the president's spy agencies are not just interested in communication to and...
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tens of the nsa has been collecting more than that. forget about every color we make. try every e-mail we right, every chat room in whi we have a chance. what wtype, where we browsed, how ng we have been browsing, everhing we point and click catalog to by an agency his abuses are pathetic and sick. here is what is en more alarming. they're still doing it. they are doing more of it. slocum, everybody. i'm neil cavuto, and it is enough to make even james bond blush.
tens of the nsa has been collecting more than that. forget about every color we make. try every e-mail we right, every chat room in whi we have a chance. what wtype, where we browsed, how ng we have been browsing, everhing we point and click catalog to by an agency his abuses are pathetic and sick. here is what is en more alarming. they're still doing it. they are doing more of it. slocum, everybody. i'm neil cavuto, and it is enough to make even james bond blush.
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, not to leak what nsa is doing. it takes a lot more time for truth on get out to explain it. lou: you can find one idiot in this country, judy, who did not assume or expect the nsa to be sueilling communications between people in this country, and foreign citizens who might, who might,ean this country harm? >> i think thateople assumed that was going on. lou: did you for example? >> i assumed that some of it was going on. lou: right. >> i didn't assume that drug enforcement agent might be able to ask nsa for access to data collected and stored. >> how about with the internal revenue service. >> or the irs, or any of half dozen other agencies that -- >> why is there this focus on nsa? and some of the most, i think, silly characters in washington, running aund beating their choaft about very havches about. it is absurd to wash them being taken seriously by the left-wing press, why is that energy exerted rather than saying, you know where is the threat? what are w doing about it? why isn't the commander in chief speaki
, not to leak what nsa is doing. it takes a lot more time for truth on get out to explain it. lou: you can find one idiot in this country, judy, who did not assume or expect the nsa to be sueilling communications between people in this country, and foreign citizens who might, who might,ean this country harm? >> i think thateople assumed that was going on. lou: did you for example? >> i assumed that some of it was going on. lou: right. >> i didn't assume that drug enforcement...
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you could argue on the nsa stuff the guy was trying to protect individual rights. he thought there was a violation of the fourth amendment so he blew a whistle on this. there is nothing in here that is in the way of protecting american life. this is a disclosure of what we know, what we don't know which is enormously helpful to america's enemies. steve is right. if all of this had been published, if the post had put it all out it, it would ory.e been the worst leak in we can be sure there is zero chance that the chinese intelligence agencies and the russians don't have every, every iota of this. so all of this is known. >> much more than we are reading in the "the washington post." >> exactly. in the post it's a redacted version. but even that is telling us a lot o. this is a deeply harmful way to hurt the united states. >> chris: what did you learn? >> i don't see a redeeming feature in it. >> chris: i understand that point. what did you learn from the information? >> that list you start with the list of deficiencies. and there are other lists, endless lists of ot
you could argue on the nsa stuff the guy was trying to protect individual rights. he thought there was a violation of the fourth amendment so he blew a whistle on this. there is nothing in here that is in the way of protecting american life. this is a disclosure of what we know, what we don't know which is enormously helpful to america's enemies. steve is right. if all of this had been published, if the post had put it all out it, it would ory.e been the worst leak in we can be sure there is...
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we report you decide. >> another nsa bombshell to tell you about. we learned the government am collect the thousands of internet communications for years. e-mails from americans who have no connection to tearrism whatsoever. >> a massive sink hole destruction caught on tape the moment it swallows a group of trees. fox and friends first continues right now. >> good morning to you wherever you are waking up. it is thursday welcome to "fox & friends first". i am patti ann browne. >> lane. he was in the united states on a baseball scholarship. police say he was killed for fun while he was jogging on his visit to his girlfriend's home town. >> two are accused of first degree murder their friend charged as an accessory. some question why african americans remain some what silent on this crime. >> the reverend jesse jackson released this statement. the horrific episodes that leave all rationally thinking people appalled others paralyzed cannot be addressed by our silence and advocating personal responsibility. we urge all persons who believe as we do in th
we report you decide. >> another nsa bombshell to tell you about. we learned the government am collect the thousands of internet communications for years. e-mails from americans who have no connection to tearrism whatsoever. >> a massive sink hole destruction caught on tape the moment it swallows a group of trees. fox and friends first continues right now. >> good morning to you wherever you are waking up. it is thursday welcome to "fox & friends first". i am...
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you have expressed concern about the nsa. explain why you voted against the amendment to pull the funding for these programs? >> no one should misinterpret that vote because i've argued for a long time that we need more transparency, more accountable and more reform at the nsa. i voted against the reauthorization of the patriot act because i thought it was too loosely written and provided too much running room for potential abuse. but my biggest issue is not so much the database itself. it's what standards and what rules apply when nsa officials want to query that database. that important there will be oversight. i've argued we need a reform where, before the nsa can go out and do that, they have to get prior court approval and that in that process, when you go before the fisa court, there be a public advocate, a privacy advocate so distort is not just hearing from the nsa, the court is also hearing from a privacy advocate and then they can make a decision. those are two important reforms that i think we have to make. those a
you have expressed concern about the nsa. explain why you voted against the amendment to pull the funding for these programs? >> no one should misinterpret that vote because i've argued for a long time that we need more transparency, more accountable and more reform at the nsa. i voted against the reauthorization of the patriot act because i thought it was too loosely written and provided too much running room for potential abuse. but my biggest issue is not so much the database itself....
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. >> one of the problems with the nsa's talking points is that the nsa has, for a very long time, used word games, when it describes authorities publicly. those word games are based upon very strange and unordinary definitions the nsa assigned to some of the words that they use to defend their programs. >> in the "wall street journal's" report, the nsa does defend its practices. a spokeswoman says it's a very legal and respectful of americans' privacy. i she writes if americans communications are inadvertently collected during the process they use minimization procedures approved by the attorney general and used to protect the privacy of united states persons. you learned last week we did learn the nsa breached privacy rules and overstepped its authority thousands of times. >> new revelations. >> i wouldn't be surprised if people weren't watching us right now. >> i don't think anybody's watching. well, let's see, until sinbad gets out here who's in this building. >>> did you know a-rod was suspended by baseball for 211 games and said i'm lawyering up and by the time the appeal happens
. >> one of the problems with the nsa's talking points is that the nsa has, for a very long time, used word games, when it describes authorities publicly. those word games are based upon very strange and unordinary definitions the nsa assigned to some of the words that they use to defend their programs. >> in the "wall street journal's" report, the nsa does defend its practices. a spokeswoman says it's a very legal and respectful of americans' privacy. i she writes if...
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new allegations rock the nsa. documents leaked why former nsa contractor edward snowden detail thousands of privacy violations by the agency after repeated denials from the white house. >> what you are not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs. >> john: we'll discuss with a key member of the homeland security committee and critic of the nsa kentucky senator rand paul. then, another week of chaos in egypt as the interim government's crackdown on supporters of ousted president mohammed morsi leaves hundreds of people dead. >> our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets. thee'll discuss the deteriorating situation in the region and the u.s. response with republican congressman pete king of new york and democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. plus, another delay for the president's healthcare law forces the obama administration to play defense. >> this is no longer a political debate. this is what we call the law. >> the pr
new allegations rock the nsa. documents leaked why former nsa contractor edward snowden detail thousands of privacy violations by the agency after repeated denials from the white house. >> what you are not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs. >> john: we'll discuss with a key member of the homeland security committee and critic of the nsa kentucky senator rand paul. then, another week of chaos in egypt as the interim government's crackdown on supporters...
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the nsa is paying millions of dollars each year to access data files and more. more than $52 billion shared among the various five agencies to get what they want whenever they want from whomever they want on whomever they want. that is kind of creepy. >> it is creepy, basically hush money to give it to corporations already making money to have the corporations turn over information that belong to the taxpayers, corporate cronyism, it is an incentive to make money but dangerous when it comes to the government coming in and saying we will pay you all of the money so long as you hand over all the private information of your private customers. i don't think it is a great idea. neil: they say we are against this. were you paid to provide this. we are against this. >> i read it slightly differently, we should be scrutinizing all of this and make sure the government is acting in everybody's best interest, they are compelling the companies to provide them information that they are seeking from them. they are compensating them for the trouble. neil: thanks judas for the
the nsa is paying millions of dollars each year to access data files and more. more than $52 billion shared among the various five agencies to get what they want whenever they want from whomever they want on whomever they want. that is kind of creepy. >> it is creepy, basically hush money to give it to corporations already making money to have the corporations turn over information that belong to the taxpayers, corporate cronyism, it is an incentive to make money but dangerous when it...
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meantime president obama is outlining new rules for the nsa. but will his plan for the agency's controversy surveillance limit its scope. we will take a look at the details. >>> detroit may be the biggest u.s. city to ever declare bankruptcy. as it tries to fight its way back from a full-on collapse seems like the motor city's woes could have a major impact on other cities across the country. >> as we learn that 18 of the 19 embassies and consulate that were closed as a result of an al qaeda terror threat will reopen tomorrow, we will take a look at what motivated the change and what this means for an apparently ongoing threat. >> they had the capacity to go after our embassies. they have the capacity potentially to go after our businesses. they had the capacity to be destabilizing and disruptive in countries where the security apparatus are weak. i should definitely do laundry more often. yeah. by the time i do there's all these mystery stains. i mean is it coffee? could be gravy. yeah. so now i u tide boost with my tide. it's double powerful
meantime president obama is outlining new rules for the nsa. but will his plan for the agency's controversy surveillance limit its scope. we will take a look at the details. >>> detroit may be the biggest u.s. city to ever declare bankruptcy. as it tries to fight its way back from a full-on collapse seems like the motor city's woes could have a major impact on other cities across the country. >> as we learn that 18 of the 19 embassies and consulate that were closed as a result of...
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that's what nsa does. its sole purpose is to get intelligence to protect americans from attack. >> with we did not have this programs we wouldn't be able to listen in on the bad guys. >> neil: this is just -- using a terror threat to run roughshod over common sense and our constitution. and by the way, patrick to your point, as if we know these programs were responsible for any of the information we have. >> no, no. the taking -- i need to come back to what you just said about the american future fund. anything something i talk about yesterday. bob bauer, the obama campaign lawyer, is the one who instituted this at the fecfec staff went to lois learner, lois lane lerner. he ended up as the irs chief counsel. on the stuff on the nsa -- this is part of the same attack on american democracy, we have people getting up here with these canards saying, look at our program, we got all this information. it had nothing do do with the 300 millions americans whose records they're taking. the nsa is supposed to be list
that's what nsa does. its sole purpose is to get intelligence to protect americans from attack. >> with we did not have this programs we wouldn't be able to listen in on the bad guys. >> neil: this is just -- using a terror threat to run roughshod over common sense and our constitution. and by the way, patrick to your point, as if we know these programs were responsible for any of the information we have. >> no, no. the taking -- i need to come back to what you just said about...
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do the american people think irs targeting and nsa snooping are phony? jamie weinstein says, not a chance, and the administration should stop labeling these as stuff. jamie, there's a lot of them. benghazi -- phony scandal or not. >> even if nothing more comes out, it's no a phony scandal. the fact there were warnings about the threats to benghazi and nothing done to above up security, the american people see that as scandalous, but if nothing else comes out, even what we know right now is scandalous. >> the liberals, a lot of people say watergate was a real scandal. i don't know. no four americans dying at watergate. >> we know there were a chain of communications to the state department, to beef up security the, they knew there were warnings of trouble. and it wasn't beefed up. so i think that of itself is scandalous, and there's many more questions about benghazi. but by itself that's scandalous. >> who called for a standdown order and the talking points would be about the video, irs? >> the fact that tea party groups were targeted, in and of itself,
do the american people think irs targeting and nsa snooping are phony? jamie weinstein says, not a chance, and the administration should stop labeling these as stuff. jamie, there's a lot of them. benghazi -- phony scandal or not. >> even if nothing more comes out, it's no a phony scandal. the fact there were warnings about the threats to benghazi and nothing done to above up security, the american people see that as scandalous, but if nothing else comes out, even what we know right now...